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English opera singer and actor
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2024-04-17 06:23:00
For David, on his birthday: Ben Vonberg-Clark & Nigel Foster in a taster for Out of the Shadows at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham
In June, we are presenting Out of the Shadows at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham as part of 96 Festival, its celebration of queerness and theatre. Out of the Shadows is an evening of my music, featuring two recent cantatas and a selection of my songs performed by tenor Ben Vonberg-Clark, baritone Jonathan Eyers and pianist Nigel Foster.As a little taster, here are two songs from my song cycle, For David, on his Birthday performed by Ben Vonberg-Clark and Nigel Foster and recorded at Hinde Street Methodist Church in 2023 when Out of the Shadows was premiered. The recording engineer Christopher Braine. The video is available on YouTube.In the 1990s I came across two book of poems by the Black American poet Carl Cook, The Tranquil Lake of Love and postscripts. I used his poems for the chorales in my Passion setting, and set seven of them as annual birthday presents for my boyfriend (and now husband) David. Here […]
2024-03-09 12:50:00
Parsifal, Deutsche Oper, 8 March 2024
Amfortas – Jordan Shanahan Titurel – Andrew Harris Gurnemanz – Günther Groissböck Parsifal – Klaus Florian Vogt Kundry – Irene Roberts Klingsor – Joachim Göltz Knights of the Grail – Patrick Cook, Youngkwang Oh Esquires – Sua Jo, Arianna Manganello, Kieran Carrel, Chance Jonas-O’Toole Flowermaidens – Flurina Stucki, Sua Jo, Arianna Manganello, Hye-Young Moon, Mechot Marrero, Marie-Luise Dreßen Voice from Above – Marie-Luise DreßenDirector – Philipp StölzlCo-director – Mara KurotschkaSet designs – Conrad Moritz Reinhardt, Philipp StölzlCostumes – Kathi MaurerLighting – Ulrich NiepelRevival director – Silke Sense Chorus, Men of the Extra Chorus, and Children’s Chorus of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin (chorus masters: Jeremy Bines and Christian Lindhorst)Opern-Ballet, Statisterie, and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, BerlinDonald Runnicles (conductor)PARSIFAL von Richard Wagner, Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright.Image: Matthias BausMemory plays all manner of tricks: major and minor. I could have sworn I had seen Philipp Stölzl’s Deutsche Oper Parsifal twice before this, distinctly […]
2024-01-26 12:53:00
ChoralFest 2024: Dartington Trust announces new-look Summer school at Dartington Hall under Gavin Carr and Mark Stone.
[…] will be able to take part in smaller consort singing groups, solo masterclasses and one-to-one voice lessons, as well as morning yoga and mindfulness classes to sustain them through a packed week of music making. Thursday evening will give students a chance to let their hair down and perform their party pieces in an informal cabaret.Gavin Carr will be joined by tutors and pianists including pianist Kelvin Lim, mezzo-sopranos Sarah Pring, Victoria Simmonds, and Allison Cook, conductor and noted coach Lada Valešová, tenors Daniel Norman and Andrew Rees, and bass James Platt. The teaching team will also give evening recitals throughout the course.Full details from the Dartington Trust's website.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-24 01:17:22
BMInt presents a not-so-short history of Shostakovich’s The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District in connection with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s first performances of the complete opera on January 25th and 27th. Tickets HERE On January 26, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District was presented in Moscow. This was not breaking news. Lady Macbeth had enjoyed almost simultaneous premieres in 1934, at the Maly Opera Theatre in Leningrad on January 22 and then at the Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in Moscow two days later. The piece had elicited high praise from the February 1st edition of Soviet Art: Shostakovich’s new opera is indisputably one of the most significant achievements of our musical and theatrical life. It is in truth the first great, truly outstanding and masterfully constructed operatic work to have been composed in the 16 years since the October Revolution. Over the following two years, […]
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